Interested in retro computing, music, and philosophy.
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Last Notes npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Haven't figured out if I should try to target something p-code like or native. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky That's not a bad idea. Pascal already has ': returnType' for functions anyway. Could always add a 'Void' return type. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Playing with an idea to take what's essentially Pascal, but eliminating some of the pain points. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky "I asked ChatGPT and it said..." npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky A link to a message on BlueSky. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky OMG. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3lof42xvp4c2j npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Aside from AI bullshit, when was the last time anybody in the tech industry created anything? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Well, there's about 10,000 cults out there cosplaying as evangelical churches. The RDF in places like that would make Steve jealous. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Jobs was Jobs. There are few people that defy categorization, but he's one of them. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Weirdly enough, here in NorthEast Ohio, we haven't seen too much of any of the bad weather yet, so it's possible that you won't either. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Getting a lot of "haven't talked to you in a long time" kinds of text messages from phone numbers I've never heard of. Most with Canadian area codes, but got one today from Seattle, apparently. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I appreciate your commitment to the bit. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Just ran into some code that was written by a galaxy-brain 'clean code' guy. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky sometimes I wonder how hard it would be to fork that project and only change the naming. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Good article on how awful being a software engineer has gotten: npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky You can tell that Musk knows absoulutely nothing about software engineering, because no engineer in their right mind would have proposed rewriting a massive COBOL codebase like that. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Yikes! Did they give you anything to help with it? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky try renaming ~/.config yet? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Thank you! This almost makes me want to try contacts again and just use regular sunglasses. My eyes are incredibly light sensitive and I'm planning to move to a more sunny location soon. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky How do people feel about "transitions" #eyeglasses? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Anyone know how what it takes to get #CPAP supplies in #Europe, specifically #Portugal? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Does anyone have opinions on rsync.net as a backup solution? I'd be looking at using their server in Switzerland, specifically. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I wonder just how hard it would be to write a garbage collector in 65816 assembly language. (obviously need a heap allocator too.) npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Hi [@mos_8502](https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502 ) - just curious in your work with the Circle library, did you ever try to get things running under QEMU? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Funny how the EFF and FSF both turned out to be kind of shitty, really. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I just could never get over how impossible to read the VIC-20's screen was. The C-16 was so much better in that aspect. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Trying to use the VICE emulator on my MacBook Pro, but I'm running into trouble with the keyboard. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky End the FSF. We need *useful* FOSS advocacy, not whatever the hell they do. https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/113645334779401139 npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky At this point, my biggest problem/worry about BlueSky is the fact that their servers are located in the US. That makes me just a bit nervous at this point. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I so hope they follow SNW with a proper TOS reboot. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I wish that people who think "government should be run like a business" understood that UnitedHealthCare is a business. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Oh I know... It's like Johnny Bravo came to life but turned out to be smart. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Strange New Worlds has the highest number of impossibly hot actors I have ever seen in a TV show. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I don't generally share YouTube videos, but this one is just too good: npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I wish there was a way to impress on younger people that (a) there’s nothing inherently wrong with the music they like, while at the same time, (b) the music industry, especially since the dawn of streaming, is optimized for selling the most banal product for the highest price and not for creating lasting art. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Selling off a lot of retro computers and guitar related gear that I’ve had for decades in some cases right now… Feels a bit like unravelling my life. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Thank you. I’m sorry to say that at this point, I have no idea when I’ll have the mental bandwidth to resume working on the emulator. If there’s anyone out there who wants to pick it up and run with it, they can do it with my blessing. I don’t want to hold the project back. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Wanna feel old? Allison Hannigan is 50 years old. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I’m using the term as in trans people or Black people talking about their oppression. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Maybe add a specific hashtag instead of using CW. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky When you say, “It’s ok, we’ve survived it before, we’ll survive it again”, please realize that some people did not, in fact, survive it before, and some will not in fact survive it now. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I wish Mastodon had a button for “I’m numb too, but I see you.” npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Making voting mandatory won’t work… People would just write in Mickey Mouse or worse, would always vote for the party (GOP) that would be first to tell them that being forced to vote violates their freedom. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky So, Apple got weird with running unsigned applications in macOS 15.1. Basically, you’ll get a really weird error trying to run an unsigned app that was installed after upgrading to 15.1. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I guess I was hoping for some sort of redemption arc for Agatha, which really didn’t happen. Instead, we get, “wow, she’s always been really evil and will probably influence Billy to be evil as well.” npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky So, the last episode of Agatha All Along was a bit of a letdown. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky If I can make it the last few remaining years to retirement without having to write code for Windows, I’ll consider that a win. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky If you want the Fediverse beat BlueSky, then you have to understand what features over there would make this a better place for everybody. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I’d love it if Fedi clients like Mona had a “time delayed block” feature. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I wonder if someone decided it was more lucrative to create therapies for long Covid instead of just preventing Covid in the first place. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Dumb #retroComputing project idea: npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I like how for years, we were sold on the idea “oh don’t worry, satellites just burn up in the atmosphere once they die.” npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I wish Yamaha made a version of their THR series of #guitar amps that was nothing except a stereo input plus tone and volume controls. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Try to not care if people go to #Bluesky instead of the Fediverse. They're really not the same thing. There's things that they do better there and things that we do better here, and honestly, the culture is quite different. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Here’s the thing… She was responsible for the photo. If using AI makes it impossible to be verify the details on it, AI shouldn’t be used. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Did the person involved have both the cropped photo and the enhanced one? Did the cropped photo have the invented details? Why is this hard for you? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Sure, but someone used the AI tool and would have (or should have) reviewed its output. *That* person should be held accountable. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Is there a #Wayland remote desktop sort of thing similar to xRdp? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky It was the spam that killed Usenet. There was nothing ever wrong with the protocol. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky We’d first have to get all of the talking heads in the media to stop repeating the BS. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky You can tell how old a programmer is by mentioning “68k assembly” and seeing if they get all misty eyed. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky So how long until we find the connection between Netanyahu and Putin? After the election perhaps? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky “bad food and cellmate has no rizz, 2/5 stars” npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky what if you allowed the CPU to run all the time except when accessing the lower 64k? So CPU bound loads could enjoy more fast cycles. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I wonder how hard it would be to also put a SD card on the cart? Have that plus some language of some kind to run. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky C, but everything is a void pointer. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky *Me 30 minutes ago* “These Canadian edibles ain’t shit.” npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Was in Cleveland, at Lake Erie today, and got a message from Verizon welcoming me to Canada. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Are you always this fucking pedantic? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky How did you get the docked file browser on the right side? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky idk, before posting a reply to someone telling them you don't like what they've posted, ask yourself, “Why the fuck would I do that?” npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Dumb question... If you get a "wrong number" text on your phone, but then after explaining you're no who they're looking for, the sender wants to be friends and asks if you're a "beautiful lady", that's a red flag, right? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky If anyone tells you how trustworthy LLMs are, show them this diagram that is allegedly a *schematic* of the reverb driver portion of a 65 Fender Princeton Reverb. It’s so insane, I don’t even know how to describe it: npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I'm thinking documentation. [@mos_8502](https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502 ) Your thoughts? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky and who in the world wants negative comments anyway? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Just finished watching The Acolyte, or as I like to call it, Law and Order: Coruscant. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky That’s fair. I was mostly referring to people who insist that something needs to be written in the new hot language simply because it exists now. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky That’s pretty awful, but I’ve seen it so many times now. Back when J2EE was the new hotness, there were a bunch of engineers who had to use every damn feature of it, no matter how stupid the result was. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Could definitely be worse. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky CDE was a breath of fresh air back when I was stuck on Windows NT in 1995 or so. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Suggesting a safety feature that BlueSky has was called a “violation of Data Sovereignty”, and was noted as impossible in a federated SM platform, even though BlueSky is indeed, a federated SM platform. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Nvm, I saw it. Too many people on the fediverse have just the wrong kind of Linux energy. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky What happened? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Pet Peeve: The Absolutely Dumb-fuck “Security” idea of a website doing the “if an account with yourname@\example.com exists, you’ll receive an verification email in a few minutes.” npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I *love* Canada, honestly. The Toronto area is like a second home to me. If it were completely up to me, I’d be living there already. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky #toronto question…. If you’re staying at a hotel near the airport, is there a train that can take you to downtown? npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Ok, I'm sold. I've seen the bread you make. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Nice- I’ve always wanted a small orchard with a cider bar right there on the property. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Add a microbrewery or cider works Iwith a commercial kitchen, and I think I’d be in heaven. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Indeed. Write some music, maybe make a compiler. Could be nice. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky At work recently, they were talking about yet another MV-something strategy, and all I could think of was, “I really need to retire.” npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky My goal is to make effect loops for two of my guitar amps without actually modifying them. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky [@mos_8502](https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502 ) How hard would it be to 3d print a 1 inch tall cylinder with holes to match a 9-pin miniature vacuum tube? The holes would hold pins allowing the whole thing to plug into a tube socket. They’d have to go through the entire plug. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Definitely. I still think Clapton’s solo on the title track was the best he’s ever played. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky I’ve always been under the impression that Dave and Roger both have a lot of grief and regret over Syd. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Dave just seems like the kind of guy you could hang out with. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky David Gilmour > Eric Clapton. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky Um, Corey looks like he might be naked. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky And people need to get away from calling an unfair economy a ‘recession’. There’s a specific meaning to that word, and misusing it just makes it easier for the rich & political classes to screw everyone else over. npub1dmy8u892wudp6vyk8wsku6s0fqyl0dcq0spqwz7m7m5fkd96544srm5tze Becky True, but if the defaults are locked down, then someone will complain about the defaults and represent it as if not-locked-down isn’t possible.
